The two species belonging to the genus Thalassia (Family: Hydrocharitaceae), T. testudinum Banks ex König and T. hemprichii (Ehrenberg) Ascherson are widely distributed in shallow coastal areas in the tropics and subtropics of the Western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific, respectively (den Hartog, 1970; Phillips andMeñez, 1988; Spalding et al., 2003), and they are considered to be twin species. © 2006/2007 Springer. All Rights Reserved.
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Tussenbroek, B. I. V., Vonk, J. A., Stapel, J., Erftemeijer, P. L. A., Middelburg, J. J., & Zieman, J. C. (2006). The biology of thalassia: Paradigms and recent advances in research. In Seagrasses: Biology, Ecology and Conservation (pp. 409–439). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2983-7_18
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